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(Application filed Mar. 24, 1899.)

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HERMAN SGHLIRF, OF ASHLAND, WISCONSIN.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,703, dated May 23, 1899.

Application filed March 24,1899. Serial No. 710,292.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERMAN SCHLIRF, of Ashland, in the county of Ashland and State of Visconsin, have invented a new and Improved Game Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved game apparatus which is simple and durablein construction, arranged to afford amusement to a player, and at the same time requires considerable skill to successfully play the game. a

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure l is a plan view of the improve ment, and Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

The improved game apparatus is provided with a board or table A, in which are formed depressed or sunken stalls B B B B arranged radially one alongside the other and in the form of numerals. For instance, as shown in Fig. 1, the stalls are in the shape of the numerals l 9 O0 to indicate that the apparatus is to be named the Nineteenth- OenturyPuzzle. These pockets thus formed have obstructions in them and do not constitute clear passages, which arrangement of obstructions may be seen in the drawings. The stalls are open at their upper ends to connect with a portion of a circular pathway (J, arranged around a disk D, which forms part of the board or table, and the upper end of the pathway 0 connects by a gateway G with a segmental pathway concentric to the pathway 0 and likewise formed in the table or board A and in the same plane with the bottom of the stalls B B B B The pathway 0 also connects with a pathway 0 extending around the stalls, and in the several connected pathways mentioned are adapted to travel large and small balls D D adapted to be stored in the stalls B B B B in such a manner that each stall contains one large and one small ball.

In order to prevent the balls from being (No model.)

accidentally lost out of the pathways and stalls, I prefer to cover the board with a pane also extends to the bottom of the board to reinforce the latter and protect the same.

It is understood that the balls D D are free to travel in the pathways, and in order to properly play the game itis necessary for the player to tilt the table or board in sucha manner that the balls finally pass into the stalls B B B B in the order above mentioned; When this has been accomplished, the game has been successfully played.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-*- 1. A puzzle, comprising a board or table having at one end a segmental pathway sunken in the surface of the board or table and with its ends curved inwardly, a circular raised portion or disk on the board or table and forming a circular pathway communieating with the segmental pathway at approximately the middle thereof, the circular pathway branching out and communicating with the ends of a third pathway located at the opposite end of the board or table, and the board or tablehaving also a plurality of stalls or depressions communicating with the said circular pathway and disposed radially from the disk, the stalls having obstructions formed in the walls thereof, for the purpose specified.

2. A puzzle, having a table or board with a segmental pathway formed in the face thereof near one end, a circular portion or disk on the board or table and forming a circular pathway communicating with the segmental pathway at approximately the center thereof, the circular pathway diverging into a third pathway located near the opposite end of the board or table, and the board or table also having a number of stalls ranging radially from the disk and communicating with the circular passage, the said third pathway be ing extended around the stalls and past the outer ends thereof.

HERMAN SOHLIRF.

Witnesses:

CHAS. BAILEY, V W. H. FITZGERALD. 

